Carl's gun for hire is jailed
(Herald Sun)
May 30, 2008

A Carl Williams "gun for hire" fired his parting shot at a Supreme Court judge yesterday after being told he would spend at least 16 years in jail over his role in a failed gangland murder plot.

Sean Jason Sonnet, a violent criminal lured by Williams to take part in the gangland killings, was sentenced yesterday to a maximum 20 years' jail for conspiring to shoot dead Carlton Crew rival Mario Condello.

A fiery Sonnet, 39, abused Justice Betty King as she handed down her sentence, yelling: "Are you f---ing finished, you f---ing dog? You didn't even give me a fair trial."

Sonnet's mother sobbed and yelled out his name during his tirade.

Unfazed by the abuse, Justice King ordered Sonnet from the court.

The outburst brought to an end a long, eventful trial, which Sonnet threatened to turn into "a circus" to cause a mistrial.

"If you think these fools (corrections guards) will stop me, they won't," he shouted on one occasion.

Sonnet and getaway driver Gregg Hildebrandt were arrested while waiting to shoot Condello outside his Brighton mansion in North Rd on June 9, 2004.

But Condello was living in a city apartment at the time.

Police had learned of the kill plot while investigating the group over allegations they were trafficking drugs.

Sonnet was armed with two guns and a two-way radio.

"The Crown maintains that this conspiracy was, in your minds, only a minute or two off being executed," Justice King told him yesterday.

"You each believed you were about to carry it out, expecting that you would see Condello walking his dog."

Justice King said an innocent man walking his dog at the time was lucky not have been shot by mistake.

"This was to be a cold-blooded execution of a human being in a very public place with people going about their daily business," she said.

"It is a very significant conspiracy to murder, and one that rightly terrified the people of Melbourne.

"You had no personal knowledge of, nor animosity towards, Condello. That makes you a gun for hire.

"Without you, Williams would not have been able to put this plan into action."

Before yesterday he'd been sentenced to a maximum 13 years' jail for 58 offences including drug trafficking, possessing firearms, recklessly causing serious injury and armed robbery.

The wife of slain crime patriarch Lewis Moran says his convicted murderer Evangelos Goussis 'got what he deserved.'

Goussis, 40, was this afternoon found guilty of the murder of Moran, 58, at the Brunswick Club in March 2004.

He was also found guilty of intentionally causing serious injury to Bert Wrout. He was found not guilty of Rout's attempted murder.

It is the second murder conviction for the former elite boxer who is already serving a jail term for the murder of Lewis Caine - the former boyfriend of gangland lawyer Zarah Garde-Wilson.

Speaking outside court, Judy Moran said the murder conviction was bittersweet.

"I can't say I'm happy, my husband's dead, but at least these murderers are getting what they deserve,'' Ms Moran said.

Ms Moran said the conviction helped with the grieving process, and told reporters she had a message for Goussis:

"How would you like your mother to go through what I'm going through?''

She applauded the efforts of Purana taskforce detectives, and said she was confident the jury would find Goussis guilty.

"I felt very positive right through, the Purana boys did a wonderful job,'' she said.

Ms Moran, whose sons Jason and Mark were also victims of the gangland war, said she next aimed to speak to Purana about Marks’ murder “and see how we can move on with that”.

“When that's dealt with then I can die a happy old lady,” Ms Moran said.

While she said she did not think she could endure much more, she was prepared to put herself through more trauma to have Mark’s murder dealt with: "My word I would, any mother would do that. But in the long run I have faith in the Purana boys.”

"It takes its toll, please believe me. No-one has come out of this unscathed, not my grandchildren, not myself, my daughter in law, no-one."

Ms Moran said viewers of Underbelly could never now what it was like for her to get a telephone call to say the father of her children was dead.

The Supreme Court trial heard prosecution evidence from another man who claimed he planned the murder, and drove Goussis and another man to the hotel for the killing.

He claimed he and Goussis then collected a cash payment from the man who organised the hit.

The man, who cannot be named, told police that part of his motivation for helping to kill Moran stemmed from a fallout dating back to the murder of Alphonse Gangitano - a man he described a a gentleman.

The criminal told the court that he confessed to being involved in Lewis Moran's murder on the day that the Australian Crime Commission questioned his wife.

He said he wanted to ''get my wife out of that situation''.

He earlier told the jury: ''I was trying to -- not take the heat off my wife, but ease the pressure on my wife.''

Prosecutor Andrew Tinney said the murder was a meticulously planned crime. "It was carried out with frightening efficiency, with a brazen disregard for the safety of innocent people in the locale," Mr Tinney said.

Giving evidence via videolink from prison, the driver said he waited in the car while Goussis and a second gunman went into the club and murdered Moran. "The shotgun misfired so he (Goussis) shot Moran with the handgun twice," the driver said.

The driver said he was first offered the Moran contract by Williams in a meeting near a suburban cafe. After the murder, Williams telephoned him saying: "Good one, mate. You have 150,000 reasons to smile".

Defence lawyer Stephen Shirrefs denied Goussis committed the murder, saying he was visiting his sick mother at the time of the shooting. He said the driver was pointing the finger at Goussis so he could have his own sentence reduced.

It is the second gangland murder conviction for Goussis, who was also found guilty of murdering Lewis Caine two months after Moran's murder.

Stephen Shirrefs SC, for Mr Goussis, said in his closing address to the jury that the witness had already been convicted of another murder, and knew if he did not offer the police something in relation to the Moran case he might get life with no parole.

''Perhaps his life had started to fragment,'' Mr Shirrefs said. ''Perhaps he couldn't sustain it.''

The jury was told the evidence of the witness - a career criminal who had spent half his life in jail -- was an insight into the mind of a deceitful, manipulative person, ''who has had to survive on his wits by being clever, by weaving lies, by trying to keep those lies afloat''.

Sonnet gets 16 years
(Herald Sun)
May 29, 2008

A man described in court today as a Carl Williams "gun for hire" has been jailed for 16 years over a failed plot to kill rival Mario Condello.

Sean Jason Sonnet, 39, abused Judge Betty King as she handed down his maximum sentence of 20 years.

Just before handing down the sentence, Justice King told Sonnet: "You have a clear history of use of firearms and a substantial history of violence."

Sonnet's mother began to sob when Justice King announced the minimum jail term.

Sonnet then stood and yelled to Judge King: "Are you f---ing finished, you f---ing dog? Get f---ed you dog."

He also called her a drunk and claimed he had been denied a fair trial.

Justice King ordered Sonnet from the court.

Sonnet will spend at least 16 years in jail for the doomed conspiracy to murder.

He, along with Williams' cousin, Michael Thorneycroft, was arrested outside Condello's Brighton mansion on the morning of June 9, 2004.

They were planning to kill Condello as he was walking his dog.

But they were unaware he was actually living in a city apartment at the time.

Renate Mokbel loses court battle
(Herald Sun)
May 23, 2008

The sister-in-law of accused double killer Tony Mokbel has lost her court battle to get out of jail.

Renate Lisa Mokbel, 36, had applied to the High Court for leave to appeal against her two-year jail sentence.

She is 14 months into the sentence she received when she failed to provide a $1 million surety for Tony Mokbel, who skipped bail while on drug charges.

Renate Mokbel's lawyer Mirko Bagaric argued in court she was treated unfairly in getting a maximum sentence despite never having previously been convicted of a crime.

However Justice Ken Hayne said Renate Mokbel had no grounds to appeal as she failed to provide the surety she had promised.

Tony Mokbel is currently facing murder and drug charges after being extradited to Australia from Greece last weekend.

Kizon man in Sydney drug bust
(Manly Daily/news.com.au)
May 22, 2008

A close associate of WA crime figure John Kizon and friend of disgraced AFL star Ben Cousins has been charged over his alleged role in the importation of 45kg of powdered MDMA (ecstasy) into Western Australia.

Fabian Quaid, 31, faced Central Local Court charged with trafficking in a commercial quantity of a prohibited drug.

Police say the MDMA was sufficient to make more than 150,000 ecstasy tablets worth $4.7million.

Quaid was arrested outside a Manly cafe on the previous afternoon by officers of the Australian Crime Commission following the arrests of three other men in Perth in relation to an alleged drug syndicate.

Quaid, a taekwondo champion, is an old friend of disgraced football star Ben Cousins.

Cousins is understood to have stayed in Quaid's Manly apartment in 2007 following an alleged cocaine binge in Los Angeles that landed him in an LA hospital.

The pair reportedly attended the same Perth primary school.

They were photographed together at the Anthony Mundine versus Nader Hamdan fight at the Sydney Entertainment Centre in February.

Quaid, who according to the Age newspaper, allegedly supplied Cousins with drugs, is said to be close to several member of Perth's Coffin Cheaters bikie gang.

Australian Crime Commission police detained Quaid in the Manly cafe on Wednesday afternoon and later searched a nearby apartment before charging him.

The arrest followed a joint investigation involving the Australian Federal Police, the Western Australia Police, the Australian Crime Commission and Customs.

Police allege the syndicate was going to set up a drug lab in an eastern suburb of Perth and manufacture ecstasy pills using the MDMA they allegedly imported.

Police and Customs seized the drug late last month and substituted it for another substance before keeping members of the syndicate under surveillance.

They arrested three members of the syndicate on Monday and arrested Quaid in Manly on Wednesday.

A 58-year-old Sydney man, a 31-year-old Melbourne man and a 39-year-old Queensland man have already been charged over the importation and for the alleged possession of a pill press.

In a brief hearing, Quaid did not apply for bail and it was formally refused.

He was remanded in custody until June 6, when he will appear at the same court via audio-visual link.

Formerly of Leeming, Perth, Quaid was in line for selection in the 2000 Olympic Games in his martial arts discipline.

He is godfather of a son of notorious WA Coffin Cheater Troy Mercanti.

It is believed Mercanti bashed Melbourne drug king-pin Tony Mokbel during a gangland meeting in Carlton in 2002.

Mr Quaid's younger brother, Marc, owned Triden International Security which provided bouncers for Metro City in Perth to which John Kizon has been closely linked and which was the scene of a 2005 shooting involving Troy Mercanti.

Quaid had been living in Sydney, but reportedly visited Perth regularly.

Lie test over Hodson killings
(Herald Sun)
May 23, 2008

The son of murdered police informers Terrence and Christine Hodson is being re-investigated over the double murder.

Andrew Hodson, 39, revealed he was recently called in by members of the Petra Taskforce, formed to investigate the 2004 murders, to undergo a lie-detector test over the double slaying.

Mr Hodson was interviewed by homicide squad investigators in 2004 but until recently has had little contact with investigators.

"They believe that I know of, or I was a part in, what happened," he told the Herald Sun.

Mr Hodson said he was asked during the polygraph test whether he gave information to a third party about the layout of his parents' East Kew home, or their movements on the night they were executed.

He said he agreed to the test because he had nothing to hide.

"I said I'm happy to do it," Mr Hodson said.

"Do I know something? No I don't. If I did, the person would be dead."

Mr Hodson admits to a criminal history including convictions for armed robbery, but says he has not committed an offence in nearly a decade.

He said he loved his father but believed he was fair game after informing on other criminals.

But he argued his mother was innocent and didn't deserve to die.

"My father played that game and lost," Mr Hodson said.

"He crossed that criminal line when he became an informer.

"That's the risk you take for being an informer.

"My mother didn't deserve to die at all. I just want to know why -- why she had to go."

The Hodsons' deaths followed the leaking of a secret police file on Terrence Hodson, detailing his role as a registered police informer.

Moran kill jury out
May 23, 2008

The jury in the Supreme Court trial that stopped the showing of Underbelly has retired to consider its verdict.

Evangelos Goussis (left) has pleaded not guilty to the murder of underworld figure Lewis Moran and to the attempted murder of Herbert Wrout, who was shot by the second gunman but survived.

Moran, 58, was chased and gunned down in the Brunswick Club four years ago.

Channel Nine's Underbelly series was banned in Victoria on the grounds it would be prejudicial.

Mokbel appears via video-link
(Herald Sun)
May 20, 2008

Tony Mokbel trafficked drugs in Europe while on the run, a court heard.

In charges tendered to the Melbourne Magistrates' Court this morning, police allege Mokbel trafficked a commercial quantity of methylamphetamine in Greece and 'diverse places unknown'.

He faced another charge of conspiring to traffick a commercial quantity between July 2006 and June 2007.

Mokbel was on the run for 790 days after vanishing in March 2006.

During the 20 minute hearing Mokbel's lawyers claimed he was being held unlawfully in Australia following his weekend extradition from Greece.

Mokbel appeared in court 13 before Chief Magistrate Ian Grey via video link from Barwon Prison looking thin and tanned in an open-necked white shirt and black suit.

He sat stony-faced as he heard argument about the legality of his extradition from Greece.

A full court, which included 20 plain-clothes detectives and dozens of media, looked on as Mokbel's face was beamed into court via a one-metre-wide video screen.

He was sitting in front of a blue wall and resting his arm on a small white table in front of him.

At times, Mokbel held his head up, placing his chin between his index and middle fingers.

He spoke only briefly on two occasions. Asked if he could hear proceedings, Mokbel replied: "Yes I can your honour".

At the end of the hearing, Mr Gray asked Mokbel if he had been able to clearly see the proceedings.

"Yes I have," Mokbel said smiling.

Mr Gray then adjourned the court and Mokbel, like everyone in the court, stood up, meaning only his chest was visible on the screen.

His head became briefly visible again as he joined others in the court in the custom of nodding as the magistrate left the bench.

Mokbel's video-link to the court was then terminated.

Mokbel has been charged with the murders of Lewis Moran and Michael Marshall. He is also facing 15 drug-related charges and two charges of attempting to pervert the course of justice.

Defence lawyer Mirko Bagaric asked for a preliminary argument to be heard on June 24 about the legality of Mokbel's extradition.

Mr Bagaric said his client should not have been moved from Greece with an appeal still pending in the European Court of Human Rights.

"By extraditing my client back while that appeal is still proceeding, the executive of this country has wantonly destroyed my client's right to an appeal," he said.

Mr Bagaric said under those circumstances Mokbel's extradition constituted an illegal act.

"It is my submission that my client is being held unlawfully in the circumstances he was brought back to Australia."

Mokbel was remanded in custody, while his criminal matters have been adjourned until August 12. Mokbel, 42, was on the run for 790 days after vanishing in March 2006.

His sister-in-law Renate was jailed in March last year for failing to pay $1 million as surety for his bail.

Mokbel was arrested at an Athens cafe, wearing a Beatles-style wig as a disguise, in June last year- almost a year after his girlfriend Danielle McGuire abandoned her life in Australia to join him.

Ms McGuire is still in Athens with daughters Renate, 16 months, and Brittany, 13, but is believed to be making arrangements to return home to Melbourne.

She has revealed the couple knew the police were closing in on them in Athens before Mokbel's capture, but she said he stayed to be with her and their baby.

In Mokbel's final phone conversation with Ms McGuire, at 10.30pm on the night before his extradition, his parting words were simple, she said.

"He said 'I'm going, I love you'," Ms McGuire said.

Mokbel to face court on Tuesday
(AAP)
May 18, 2008

Tony Mokbel will face murder and drugs charges in court on Tuesday after his two-year flight from Australian justice came to an end.

Mokbel landed at Tullamarine airport in Melbourne about 1pm (AEST) today after being extradited from Greece and was taken straight to maximum security at Barwon Prison where he appeared in an out of sessions court hearing.

He appeared before a bail justice on charges of two counts of murder, failing to appear and multiple drug trafficking charges.

Mokbel, 42, is scheduled to appear before the Melbourne Magistrate's Court, but security concerns may mean his appearance will be by video link.

He will face charges relating to the deaths of Lewis Moran in 2004 and Michael Marshall in 2003.

He fled Australia in March 2006 during his trial for importing nearly 2kg of cocaine from Mexico.

After 15 months on the run, Mokbel was arrested in a cafe in a plush Athens suburb in June last year.

Intense security and secrecy surrounded his return to Australia on a 21-hour flight aboard a chartered Gulfstream jet from Athens, via refuelling stopovers in the Maldives and Port Hedland in Western Australia.

Eight Victorian and federal police officers accompanied him on the flight from Athens amid fears, not only of an escape, but for Mokbel's life.

After the sleek white jet landed in light rain, he was taken to a hangar at the edge of the Tullamarine tarmac and was then flown by helicopter to Barwon Prison, 70km south-west of Melbourne, near Geelong.

The police helicopter was joined by an escort chopper at Avalon airport enroute and landed in a paddock near the prison about 1.45pm.

A heavily armoured van then took Mokbel into Barwon Prison, where underworld boss Carl Williams is serving 35 years for three gangland murders.

The federal government defended the secrecy surrounding the extradition and the reported $450,000 cost for chartering the luxury jet.

Home Affairs Minister Bob Debus said the government had to do all it could to pursue Mokbel, and to protect the operation to bring him back home.

"It's not very often that we do indeed get to extradite someone of this ... level of seriousness," Mr Debus told Sky News.

"Given the history of Mokbel you can understand why police wanted to have very high levels of security for their own protection, and the protection of the operation."

He said it would be not acceptable that Australian governments should allow Mokbel “to remain at large”.

Mr Debus congratulated Victorian Police and the Australian Federal Police and thanked Greek authorities for ensuring Mokbel's return.

Mr Debus said the extradition demonstrated how important international legal cooperation was.

"I understand the high level of interest in the matter but for the protection of the officers involved in Mokbel's return, no comment can be made about the logistics of the flight from Greece."

Mokbel's arrival at Melbourne's main airport at Tullamarine surprised most observers who had expected him to land at either Avalon airport or the Point Cook RAAF base, both of which are near Barwon.

His seven-month legal bid in Greece to avoid extradition finally failed when the Greek government last week signed the order to send him back to Australia.

Yesterday, Mokbel was taken from prison to Athens International airport for the flight to Australia.

Mokbel home
(The Age)
May 17, 2008

In the movies, the international man of mystery touches down in his private jet, struts to his chopper and heads off on the next bit of business.

It wasn't quite like that for Tony Mokbel yesterday: the Gulfstream that landed just after 1pm in the rain at Tullamarine was a government charter, not a rich man's toy. And the word among the police on board was that he'd been quiet on the 21-hour flight from Athens, much diminished, with no sign of the swaggering king of the betting ring.

In fact, there was no sign of Mokbel at all as he came down the steps encircled by six security men who shuffled him across the tarmac like a horse with a broken leg. Within 20 seconds, he was in the air again — for a quick helicopter ride over the western suburbs to a soggy paddock on the flats of Lara, where a white armoured van with tinted bulletproof windows waited and the rain came down harder.

Meanwhile, another helicopter acted as a decoy to confuse the media — and any potential assassins.

And at Essendon Airport, an escorted police van put on a show, for the same reasons. There are people whose motives to silence Mokbel are as potent as the authorities' desire to keep him alive to testify. Victorian police are keen to talk to him to see if he can assist them with their inquiries about several matters — not least the double murder of Terence and Christine Hodson in Kew four years ago.

The helicopter landed, the prisoner was whisked into the armoured van. Soon after, with much of the media pack looking at the sky, distracted by the helicopters whirling there, the modest convoy of two arrived at the modest gateway of Barwon maximum-security prison. The armoured van, followed by a blue four-wheel-drive, rolled down the drive into the jail compound. And that's all there was.

Cameras clicked, necks craned, but nothing could be seen of the man now doing nine years for trafficking cocaine.

From landing to lock-up, Mokbel had been in Victoria about half an hour — the operation running so smoothly that some suspected that this, too, had been a decoy operation and that the "real" convoy would arrive later, after the media had lost interest. While reporters hung around, swapping rumours, passing motorists stopped to gawp from the road.

"Is Fat Tony in there?" said one man, peering intently, as if Australia's most famous fugitive might pop out to wave hello.

Instead, inside the prison — where his former associate Carl Williams is serving 35 years for three murders — Mokbel was appearing in an out-of-sessions hearing before a bail justice on two charges of murder, failing to appear and multiple drug trafficking charges.

Afterwards, he faced his first meal on Australian soil for 26 months — and then the first of many nights in a cell measuring just eight square metres, complete with shower, toilet and electric kettle.

Last night, as the Federal Government defended the secrecy surrounding the former fugitive's return, the policeman who orchestrated his arrest 11 months ago criticised the Australian Federal Police and Victoria Police command for sidelining the investigators who had traced and trapped Mokbel in Greece.

The recently retired Detective Inspector Jim O'Brien told Channel Seven that the Purana taskforce members who had tracked down Australia's most wanted man in a foreign country had been "left out of the loop" by federal police.

"The very people who have led it, planned it, have driven the investigation, are directly responsible for the results, have been chosen to be left out of the loop at this crucial stage," he said.

Minister for Home Affairs Bob Debus said the secrecy and elaborate security measures were justified.

"It's not very often that we do indeed get to extradite someone of this … level of seriousness," Mr Debus told Sky News.

"Given the history of Mokbel you can understand why police wanted to have very high levels of security for their own protection, and the protection of the operation."

Mr Debus has defended the high cost of the operation — $450,000 — on grounds that it would be "neither appropriate or acceptable" that Australia should allow someone who had allegedly committed serious offences to remain at large.

He said he was "quite pleased it has all gone without a hitch in the end".

On Tuesday, Mokbel, who fled Australia in 2006 while on trial for trafficking, will appear before the Melbourne Magistrates Court. Security will be tight as the next chapter of his story is told.

Mokbel coming back, with fond memories of Greek good times
(The Age)
May 17, 2008

As the van carrying Tony Mokbel veered out of the gate of Larissa prison in central Greece on the beginning of his long journey back home, the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox faithful, who happened to be visiting the town, Patriarch Vartholomaios I, drove past him.

It was a propitious moment for the identity from Melbourne — a man not known for his religiosity but one who realises he will now need all the luck that God can give him.

"I don't know if Tony prays, but he may have done then," said his lawyer, Yiannis Vlachos. "He's very down. He's going back to a country where he truly believes he will not be given a fair trial. I think … he liked it here."

Mokbel, more than anyone else, knows that his time in Greece — including nearly 10 months incarcerated in various prison cells — will seem like heaven compared to what awaits him. Indeed, the fugitive was the first to pronounce — before judges, court officials and journalists — that he "loved" Greece, "this beautiful country and its beautiful people".

"He picked up quite a lot of Greek from other inmates and in Larissa prison made a few friends," said Mr Vlachos. "Conditions were good there. He never complained."

Unlike the strictly monitored regime that he will almost certainly experience in Australia, Mokbel had it easy in Greece — even after he was forced to give up the high life of Athens' riviera and the top-floor seaside apartment he shared with long-time partner Danielle McGuire.

Ms McGuire could visit him regularly — often taking their one-year-old daughter, Renate, with her — providing Mokbel with chocolates, toiletries and newspapers.

"He likes the chocolates and has put on a few pounds," she told The Age during one of his many court appearances.

Mokbel, who moved to Athens under the alias Stephen Papas and is believed to have transferred millions of Australian dollars to bank accounts in Greece, would often request that Ms McGuire also bring him telephone cards — his key to the outside world.

This, and his choice of top-notch lawyers (solicitors he would ultimately go on to fire) set him apart from other inmates, who were often too poor to afford either legal representation or telephone contact.

Unlike other prisoners, Mokbel also made the most of the time he was allowed out of his cell, boasting during one court appearance that he spent "hours in the prison yard and gym" of Larissa jail. "It's good there. You're allowed out from nine to 12 and again in the afternoon. I've even got a suntan."

Such leniency will seem like a far-off dream when he touches down in Melbourne. Already, officials have intimated that in his Victorian prison cell, at least initially, Mokbel will be lucky to see the light of day.

"Undoubtedly conditions in prisons in Greece are much more pleasant than any there," said Constantine Karageorge, a criminal lawyer who worked for years defending underworld figures in Sydney before he moved to Athens.

"Here, Tony was never regarded as a high-security risk and was given a certain amount of freedom. He'll no doubt look back on his days in Greece with great fondness."

It is unknown whether Ms McGuire will join him in Melbourne.

"There's money here. She could have a good life," Mr Karageorge said. "If she goes back there's always the risk that she could be arrested too, on the charge that she was aware of the whereabouts of a fugitive, but I have no doubt that she will want to give him moral support."

Seven shooting Veniamin doco
(Brimbank Leader)
May 16, 2008

Channel 7 is muscling in on rival Nine's ratings success through Melbourne's gangland war, commissioning a documentary on slain underworld hitman Andrew 'Benji' Veniamin.

Filming of the episode being made by the producers of television series Underbelly has started in Melbourne's west.

The Leader understands that the documentary about Veniaman, formerly of Sunshine West, is part of a series on crime figures being made by Underbelly producer Screentime for the Seven Network.

Crime drama Underbelly has been a ratings winner for Channel Nine, which has screened it in all states but Victoria, where it is banned by court order.

An actor portraying Veniamin features prominently in the series as the right-hand man to convicted murderer Carl Williams' during the gangland war.

Veniamin, 28, was shot dead in a Carlton restaurant in March, 2004, before he could be charged by police.

The documentary episodes will focus on the making of a criminal mind.

"In each episode we are painting a biographical profile from child to adulthood and uncovering what part nature or nurture plays and whether there were signs along the way of what was to come," Screentime associate producer Susan Paget said in an email to the Leader.

"This is not a tabloid program and is filmed in the style of Australian Story.

"The program is based on a New Zealand series that has been very welcomed by victims rights groups, police and youth outreach groups.

"One of the episodes we are working on is Andrew Veniamin..."

Ms Paget spoke to and wrote to the Leader requesting suggestions on local people who knew Veniamin and might want to speak on camera about their association with him or his family, including before he turned to crime.

Producers have been in Veniamin's former suburb of Sunshine West trying to track down old friends, neighbours and authority figures with firsthand accounts of Veniamin.

Prominent western suburbs youth worker Les Twentyman said he spoke to the crew on camera this week about how young people could spiral out of school into unemployment and a life of crime, including drug use.

"I spoke about the youth issues around Brimbank in the days I was a youth worker," he said.

"I spoke of unemployment and the lure of drugs, and how we need to provide more opportunities so things like drugs don't became as attractive.

"It was more in the general sense, as I didn't really know Andrew."

Channel 7 confirmed it had commissioned the series. It could not provide a timeline for when it would be aired on the network.

Fury on gangland tour
(Herald Sun)
May 16, 2008

Gangland figure Roberta Williams has been evicted from a swish city restaurant during a radio station's tour of underworld murder sites.

The Nova FM stunt featuring Ms Williams has sparked outrage among victims of crimes groups.

They say the Nova 100 promotion glorifies and glamorises criminals.

And a spokesman for Society Restaurant - where the tour party attempted to have lunch - said the group was asked to leave when other customers began walking out.

Spokesman Elvis Dabic said he asked the tour party to leave almost immediately.

"We said we don't want to be associated with the whole gangland thing,'' he said.

"They came in and took over the place. It was really rude and some of our customers left.

"It was a circus.''

The station's Hughesy and Kate Show took underworld ex-wife and drug trafficker Roberta Williams and radio competition winners to locations of killings in a stretch Hummer.

Ms Williams, former wife of four-time killer Carl, also appeared in the stunt's advertising. However, Nova said Ms Williams was not paid for her part in the promotion and tour.

Eight radio competition winners joined Ms Williams, Dave Hughes and Kate Langbroek for the drive around the city.

Ms Williams tried to avoid the media by hiding behind Hughesy.

A national TV current affairs program was documenting the tour, while a crew from a rival show spent most of the day trying to spoil the filming.

The tour party drove past the Carlton restaurant where Andrew Veniamin was shot dead. They later stopped at the Brunswick Club in Sydney Rd where Lewis Moran was murdered.

Hughesy and Kate's Gangland Tour was promoted all week and, aware of the controversy if could provoke, invited comments from listeners.

The majority thought the tour was a good idea, many describing it as ``awesome''.

Comments included: ``i say give carl and roberta a break''.

Nova station general manager Sam Thompson defended using Ms Williams for the promotion. ``She listens to the show and is a fan.

``We found that people were interested in her and we are responding to that interest.''

Ms Thompson said the tour was in response to interest in the gangland wars of Melbourne's drug gangs.

``What we're doing is acknowledging is genuine interest in the gangland scene.

``People are just interested in what's happened.''

But Crime Victims Support Association spokesman Noel McNamara said the stunt was ``absolutely bizarre and disgusting''.

``They are trying to glorify these hoons who are in jail for killing each other.

``Why are they glorifying these mongrels?

``They'd shoot their own mother in the back of the head if there was money in it.

``Nova should get a big kick up the ginger for promoting this.''

Plane arrives to pick up Tony
(Herald Sun)
May 15, 2008

The AFP party of up to eight personal-protection and anti-terrorist police officers, a physician and two flight crews touched down in Athens at 4.15am (Melbourne time) after a day-long journey from Australia to collect Tony Mokbel.

The officers, from the federal and Victorian police, were not to try to interview Mokbel on his long journey home as their sole mission was to bring him back safely.

The private jet -- which cost taxpayers up to $450,000 for the trip -- taxied to an isolated cargo area of Athens International Airport.

Police and security officers patrolled the jet as Australian Federal Police waited to take custody of Mokbel, who was being held in Korydallos prison in the Greek capital.

The decision to charter a private jet indicated the level of concern police had for the safety of the suspect, who many believed was prepared to implicate others, including corrupt police, in the hope of cutting a deal.

In May 2007 the Australian Government chartered a private jet, at a cost of more than $500,000, to fly terrorist suspect David Hicks from Guantanamo Bay to a South Australian prison.

Security clamp as Tony Mokbel take-off from Greece tipped
(The Age)
May 16, 2008

A luxury jet carrying Tony Mokbel was expected to leave Athens for Melbourne.

But a strike by air traffic controllers in Greece was feared to delay take-off by several hours.

Athens airport officials said the $34 million Gulfstream jet was scheduled to take off at 5pm (Melbourne time).

The air traffic controllers were due to walk off the job at 6pm for four hours in a move expected to force the cancellation of dozens of domestic and international flights from Athens.

An unshaven Mokbel, wearing a white T-shirt, black jacket and light pants, was escorted from a prison van with his hands cuffed behind his back after arriving by road from Larissa prison, some three hours outside of Athens.

Mokbel's girlfriend, Danielle Maguire, her teenage daughter, Brittany and young daughter Renate were to catch a commercial flight back to Melbourne after they were denied a seat on the private jet.

It was believed there may have been an initial problem as Renate was born in Greece and her birth certificate was issued with her father's name as Sydney businessman Stephen Papas — Mokbel's alias while on the run.

It was also reported that Federal authorities had drawn up secret contingency plans to ensure Mokbel was returned to Melbourne safely.

It was believed the detailed plans included three possible landing points and three secure jail drop-off options for his arrival.

Fears that Mokbel could try to escape or there could be an attempt on his life had prompted the high-security operation.

Prison authorities were put on standby and a top-security cell in Barwon Prison remained vacant for his return, but two other secure jails had been selected as alternative holding bays.

Victorian and federal authorities refused to discuss Mokbel's return on security grounds and Corrections Victoria issued a firm "no comment" on plans for its high-profile inmate.

Security was so tight that members of the Purana taskforce were not told details of his return. "We'll talk when he's back here and in a cell," a senior police source said.

Media publicity on his likely route home forced federal authorities to consider contingency plans.

After nearly a year in a Greek jail, he was return to a Barwon Prison cell where his routine will be mundane and he will have to come to terms with following orders rather than giving them.

He would be woken at 7.30 every morning, allowed out of his cell for a maximum of six hours a day and would be permitted one box visit a week. If he behaved he would eventually be allowed limited contact visits.

As with other high-security inmates, he would be permitted phone calls to family and lawyers but only limited contact with fellow inmates.

He would find his social network severely limited. He would be permitted to mix with a maximum of two fellow prisoners, who would be vetted by prison authorities. It was unlikely that his old ally Carl Williams, would initially be one of them.

If Mokbel decided to fight the charges, he would spend years in and out of courts. Prison authorities had bought a high-security prison transport vehicle for inmates such as Mokbel.

His hearings were to be held in a Supreme Court within the more secure County Court building.

Defence uses Dylan song in Goussis closing address
(Geelong Advertiser)
May 15, 2008

Evangelos Goussis' lawyer today said that his client was like a man Bob Dylan sang about who was falsely accused of murder.

Stepen Shirrefs, SC, told the jury Dylan wrote the song, Hurricane, to campaign for the release of Rubin Carter, who was jailed for murdering a man in a bar.

Mr Shirref's comments came during his closing address in Goussis' murder trial.

He said in the song, Carter, like Goussis, was a boxer, was falsely implicated by a career criminal seeking personal gain.

Goussis was also implicated by a career criminal.

"Ange Goussis did not kill Moran," Mr Shireffs said.

"And I suggest to you the innocence is confirmed by the evidence."

Mr Shireffs said the alibi evidence, secretly recorded jail conversations between Goussis and the criminal, and call charge records supported a picture of innocence.

He said no evidence existed to suggest Goussis concocted a false alibi with his family, as argued by the prosecution.

Mr Shireffs said that Goussis' alibi was the only logical explanation for Goussis' wherabouts on the night of Moran's death.

Mr Shireffs urged jurors to guard against any prejudices, given, they had been told Goussis was on remand in prison for an unrelated matter in 2004.

"All Ange Goussis asks of you, members of the jury, is a fair go. I know that you will do precisely that, so that, ultimately, in the end, for Ange Goussis, justice will be done," he said.

Club visit innocent - defence
(Geelong Advertiser)
May 14, 2008

Evangelos Goussis visited the Brunswick Club days before Lewis Moran's killing to have a beer, not to case the venue, the jury heard.

Stephen Shirrefs SC told the Supreme Court security footage revealed Goussis' movements were "constituent with having a couple of beers" when he was there on March 24, 2004.

"He doesn't walk through and check it all out. He stays in the one location," he said.

But, in another video, the man who claims he was the getaway driver - and who the defence has argued committed the murder - can be seen "checking out every inch of the...layout", he said.

The prosecution had earlier suggested Goussis had visited the venue for a sinister purpose three times in the week before the shooting.

Mr Shirrefs played the video to jurors and told them it showed Gousis was not there "casing the place"

"If he went there to see were Lewis Moran was standing, h doesn't have to go inside the club. You could see him by looking in the windows," he said.

Mr Shirrefs then showed jurors footage from March 7, 2004, and asked them to look at the movements of the driver who was there with his wife.

"Try and picture what's going through his mind as he's standing there, takiong it all in. Checking that door at the back which could be used if , having shot Lewis Moran, he needs to get away quickly," he said.

"He's standing there looking at it all, four days before Lewis Moran is shot."

The court heard that during a police interview in 2006, the man originally said he was the person who killed Moran.

But he later changed his story, saying he was the getaway driver and Goussis was the shooter.

Mokbel will touch down to a simple dilemma: rat or rot
By John Silvester (The Age)
May 10, 2008

With Tony Mokbel's Big Fat Greek Adventure coming to a close the alleged organised crime boss now faces a clear choice — freedom or family.

Now that Greek Justice Minister Sotiris Hadjigakis has signed the formal extradition papers Mokbel will be on a plane (either commercial or chartered) within weeks to return to Melbourne to face drug and murder charges.

Mokbel jumped bail while he was on trial for drug trafficking in March 2006. He was sentenced to a minimum of nine years' jail in his absence.

He has since been charged with the murders of gangland figures Michael Marshall (October 2003) and Lewis Moran (March 2004).

He has also been charged with controlling six drug labs while on the run.

The prosecution cases, compiled by the Purana Ganglands Taskforce, are based on phone tap material, money trails, key informers and an undercover agent's testimony.

Evidence submitted in recent Magistrates Court hearings allegedly shows Mokbel to be a prodigious drug dealer who doesn't care if the powders his team produce are toxic to his customers.

When told his drugs were making people sick, causing them to go to hospital, Mokbel allegedly gave advice that the powders should be mixed with pseudoephedrine to improve potency levels.

Analysis of the financial patterns is said to have revealed 44 suspect transactions including $10,000 to his mother as a Christmas present. Police also grabbed a courier who was allegedly about to send $500,000 to Mokbel in Greece.

Lawyers, police, criminal associates and even relatives who know Mokbel believe that when he returns he will be desperate to do a deal to seek to minimise his jail sentence.

If he agreed to plead guilty he could be entitled to a discount but possibly not a hefty one. Facing life with no minimum, a mandatory discount would still leave him with a monster sentence. Aged 43, he would know that his bleak future could involve swapping his Ferrari lifestyle for a prison-issue walking frame.

The problem is that Mokbel is unlikely to be able to sweeten the deal by giving up subordinates.

So what does he have to offer?

He will have to give information on the murders of police informer Terence Hodson and wife Christine Hodson, who were killed in their Kew home on May 15, 2004, for authorities to even consider plea discussions. Detectives believe the double murder was set up by a corrupt former member of the drug squad.

Mokbel will have to give up the former police behind the Hodson murders to have a chance of receiving a sentence of less than 30 years. The deal will be simple — rat or rot.

A special taskforce, code-named Petra, is investigating the double murder. Convicted gangland killer Carl Williams has claimed a former policeman told him that Hodson was "a problem" and had to go. Williams claimed the former detective later said the matter had been "sorted". It was just before the double murder.

Hodson, a drug dealer, had been executed after he agreed to give evidence against two detectives, Paul Dale and David Miechel, who had been using him as an informer.

The case against Dale collapsed but Miechel was found guilty and sentenced to a minimum of 12 years' jail.

Taskforce investigators have secretly visited Miechel in jail but he has refused to co-operate with any investigation.

Some within Purana would prefer Mokbel to run the legal gauntlet but senior lawyers in the Office of Public Prosecutions have privately indicated they want him to become a witness.

While Mokbel might have no issue in sinking bent cops to save himself there is a sticking point. He would have to name the actual killer and the star suspect is a man who is virtually related to him through marriage.

The suspect is a cold-blooded killer implicated in the murders of Mike Schievella, 44, and his partner, Heather McDonald, 36, at their St Andrews home in 1990.

Police said they were bound and tied and their throats slashed. One theory was they were killed because they were suspected of talking to police.

The suspect has been listed as a person of interest in three murders in the 1980s including standover man Brian Kane, who was shot in the Quarry Hotel in Brunswick in 1982.

The man has also been named as a suspect in the murder of lawyer-turned-gangland-figure Mario Condello, who was shot in the garage of his Brighton home in February 2006.

The former armed robber and gunman once formed a hatred against a policeman who had arrested him. His cell was covered with hanged stick-figures with the detective's name scrawled under each one.

Mokbel has previously shown little concern about the welfare of those close to him. When he fled bail his sister-in-law Renata was jailed when she could not produce the $1 million bail surety.

Mokbel's Greek lawyers continue to make noises about their pending appeal to the European Court of Human Rights but they know the jig is up.

Federal authorities remain determined to make Mokbel's return as low key as possible. There will be no fanfare when he returns to Melbourne and is taken to Barwon Prison.

Police Minister Bob Cameron said, "However they get him back here, I'm not particularly fussed and I don't think Victorians are particularly fussed. How much it costs doesn't matter."

His de facto wife, Danielle McGuire, her daughter and their baby Renata will have to make their own arrangements.

In this week's state budget an extra $4.7 million was allocated to Corrections Victoria to manage high-profile gangland inmates such as Mokbel.

Mokbel loses final appeal
(Herald Sun)
May 7, 2008

Tony Mokbel may be sent home within weeks after Greece approved his extradition.

The alleged killer lost his last appeal against being deported after Greek Justice Minister Sotiris Hadjigakis yesterday ratified a decision by the Supreme Court two months ago.

The minister ruled the 42-year-old Melbourne man should be sent to Australia to face up to 17 charges related to drug importation and the deaths of underworld heavyweights Lewis Moran and Michael Marshall.

The approval is the last formal step in the legal process to approve an extradition that began almost a year ago.

Mokbel could be extradited within two weeks after transportation details are worked out.

Mokbel was arrested in Athens last year on an Interpol warrant after skipping bail in 2006 while on trial in Australia for cocaine smuggling.

At the time, he was described as the country's most wanted fugitive and Australia sentenced him to up to 12 years in prison after convicting him in absentia.

Mokbel claims he is innocent of the murder charges and has argued Australian courts would not offer him a fair trial.

His defence team said senior police and government officials in Australia had publicly blamed Mokbel for crimes for which he has not been convicted.

After losing the fight in the courts in March, Mokbel's legal team had hoped to persuade Mr Hadjigakis that their client was unlikely to get a fair trial in Australia due to the publicity of his case.

Instead, they suggested he be extradited to Lebanon, where he also faces serious drugs charges.

Lebanese authorities sent through a warrant and request for extradition last month. Lawyers also took Mokbel's case to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.

It is expected Victoria Police detectives will travel to Athens to collect Mokbel and escort him back.

One of Mokbel's many lawyers, Yiannis Vlachos, confirmed the long battle to avoid justice in Australia was over.

Mokbel was arrested in June last year at a cafe near his beachside Athens home that he rented with his partner Danielle and baby daughter Renate. Danielle could not be contacted for comment yesterday.

Victoria's Police Minister Bob Cameron said there had been no official word from Greece on Mokbel.

"We welcome the news coming out of Greece," he said last night. "However, Victoria Police is yet to receive any official confirmation."

Plan to keep jail gang war free
(The Age)
May 7, 2008

Millions of dollars will be spent over the next four years to keep notorious gangland figures from attacking each other in prison and communicating with people on the outside.

As part of a $657 million community safety package, this week's state budget earmarked $4.7 million for "managing high-profile, high-security prisoners, following prominent court cases".

Corrections Commissioner Kelvin Anderson said yesterday that the money was to be used to pay for 12 extra staff to cope with the complex and unique problems caused by having high-profile inmates such as Carl Williams incarcerated at the maximum security Barwon Prison. Williams is serving a minimum of 35 years for his role in four underworld murders.

He and some of his associates are housed at the prison, as are inmates connected to the Moran family.

Williams was convicted over the murder of Jason Moran.

Mr Anderson said extra staff were needed to manage the complex relationships within the prison and to stop the inmates communicating with their wider criminal networks outside.

"We've seen by their nature that the crime has been very organised, and we need to make sure that we don't provide any opportunity for breaches of security," he said.

"We have to keep various parties separate and that takes more effort for us. Their activities, we have no doubt, have made some of them very unpopular with some prisoners in (the) mainstream."

As well as four extra prison officers, there are three more State Emergency Services Group officers, responsible for prisoner escort duty and searches, three intelligence analysts and two people at the major offenders unit, who are responsible for the assessment, classification and placement of prisoners.

"It is complex, because there is the inner group that everybody knows about and has probably featured in other states in a television series," Mr Anderson said, referring to Channel Nine's Underbelly series, which is banned in Victoria.

"Then associated with them are relatives who might have played a more minor role, but because of their association you still have the attendant problems that come with them. Then you have some hangers-on around the periphery."

Recently, it was reported that Williams has fallen out with one of his few remaining allies, Sean Sonnet, who was convicted of conspiracy to murder Mario Condello, one of Williams' enemies.

Police have claimed that maximum security prisons have been recruiting grounds for major criminal figures.

One convicted gangland killer-turned-police witness gave evidence that he met Williams and drug lord Tony Mokbel in a high-security prison, where Williams offered him $100,000 to kill Moran.

If convicted drug trafficker Mokbel is extradited from Greece to face murder charges here, it is likely he will be held in Barwon's Melaleuca Unit, designed to house the "worst of the worst".

Niece backs up Goussis' alibi
(Geelong Advertiser)
May 6, 2008

A niece of Evangelos Goussis' has told a jury she spoke to her uncle on the telephone minutes before he is alleged to have killed Lewis Moran.

Marcia Besalas told the Supreme Court Goussis answered the phone when she rang her grandmother's Fairfield house at 6.21pm on March 31, 2004, about the time Moran was shot dead.

Phone records show Ms Besalas rang from her home in Blackburn, with the call lasting more than three minutes.

She said she had learned her grandmother was unwell and wanted to find out her condition.

The court heard during cross examination Ms Besalas did not phone her grandmother's house again that night.

Ms Besalas said she could not remember why she did not make further contact, despite being worried about her grandmother.

Police prosecuter Andrew Tinney suggested she had not made the call at all.

Ms Besalas said she did, and denied that it was in fact her auntie Olga Vlahos she spoke to and not Goussis.

Gatto knocks out reporter
(Sunday Herald Sun)
May 4, 2008

What happens when a TV reporter gets into the ring with Mick Gatto? Simple: the reporter gets decked.

That's exactly what happened to A Current Affair's Martin King, who was assigned to interview the Carlton identity.

Gatto, who shot dead - but was acquitted of the murder of - Andrew "Benji" Veniamin at the height of Melbourne's gangland wars, agreed to talk to King as long he faced off for a bout in the boxing ring of his palatial suburban Melbourne home.

King agreed and stood face-to-face with the former professional fighter. Minutes later Gatto landed a jarring left hook to King's face that sent him sprawling to the canvas.

"It was fun until he actually started to hit me," King said.

"The first punch in the head is worse because it's shock and pain, after that it's just pain. I actually landed quite a few punches but what worried me was, I think Mick quite enjoyed it.

"The thing is, I didn't want to hit him too hard because all that would do was make him angry and that wouldn't be healthy for any of us."

King has a bit of swelling and bruising, tender ribs and a fractured ego.

The interview - and knockout punch - will be shown on A Current Affair on Monday at 6.30pm.

Garde-Wilson caught with needles at jail
(Sunday Herald Sun)
May 4, 2008

Gangland lawyer Zarah Garde-Wilson has been collared with drug paraphernalia in her car boot during a prison "sting".

The flamboyantly-dressed legal eagle was caught in a "targeted" search at the Metropolitan Remand Centre in Melton during the week, according to prison sources.

It could be another setback for Ms Garde-Wilson in her fight to keep practising and means she cannot consult clients in jail in person.

Yesterday, Ms Garde-Wilson claimed she was not at the centre on Wednesday and had not been banned, but refused to answer further questions.

Ms Garde-Wilson - whose de facto Lewis Caine was murdered in May 2004 in Melbourne's infamous underworld wars - was visiting a prisoner on Wednesday night when her car was searched, a source said.

Prison officers found 100 needles and 125 syringes in her car boot, they said.

"She told prison officers it was no big deal," a source said.

"Zarah said they were for her boyfriend who used steroids and there was nothing illegal about that."

The source said steroids prescribed by doctors were legal.

But her car was parked on prison property and the needles and syringes were banned from prisons under Corrections Victoria rules, the source said.

The source claimed she was banned from visiting inmates for three months.

If the ban has been imposed, she is effectively prevented from face-to-face consultations with clients on remand waiting for their court cases or prisoners appealing convictions.

Other lawyers said the Legal Services Board could use a ban to strip her of her legal licence.

A board spokesman said yesterday it was too early to comment but the board dealt with "each matter on its own merits".

A leading criminal barrister, who did not want to be named, said it was "foolish" to flout prison rules.

"The remand centre has high-tech security everywhere," he said.

"You have to have your eyeball (iris) photographed as well as your face to be registered as a visitor.

"There are always random checks being carried out by prison officers and everyone knows that the car park is still part of the jail."

Another lawyer yesterday described Ms Garde-Wilson as an "outsider".

"She doesn't mix with anyone, she keeps totally to herself," he said.

"Zarah is a lonely woman and shrinks into herself if you attempt to talk to her."

And others said Ms Garde-Wilson embarrassed other female lawyers with her revealing attire.

The Legal Services Board ruled in December 2006 Ms Garde-Wilson was not a fit and proper person to hold a practising certificate.

But Ms Garde-Wilson is fighting the ban through the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal and the Supreme Court.

She is allowed to practise until the cases are decided.

Decision on Mokbel extradition
May 4, 2008

Tony Mokbel could be back in Australia within a fortnight after Greek authorities confirmed a decision on his extradition would be made this week.

An announcement from Greek Justice Minister Sotiris Hadjigakis is expected on Tuesday or Wednesday.

Greece's Supreme Court has ruled Mokbel should be returned to Australia.

But formal approval by the Greek Government is needed before he can return to face court.

It is unusual in Greece for a justice minister to overturn a decision of the Supreme Court.

Mokbel is wanted in Australia to face charges, including murder and drug manufacturing.

Goussis was 'with his mum'
(Herald Sun)
May 1, 2008

The sister of alleged hitman Evangelos Goussis has told a jury her brother was at home with their sick mother the night Lewis Moran was killed.

Goussis' sister today told the Supreme Court she saw him at their mother's Fairfield home at 6.30pm on March 31, 2004 - the exact time the prosecution says Moran, an underworld patriach, was shot dead at the Brunswick Club.

The court heard during cross-examination that his older sister Olga Vlahos had originally told police she got home after 8pm, and found Goussis alone in the house.

On the day of the murder Goussis drove from his home in Geelong to say goodbye to his mother and a relative, who were leaving for a holiday in Greece, the court was told.

Ms Vlahos gave evidence her brother told her he was tired and would spend the day relaxing at their mother's.

She said her 79-year-old mother went blue and collapsed at the airport, and was taken to emergency at Royal Melbourne Hospital.

Ms Vlahos said her mother was discharged and she drove her back to Fairfield, arriving home about 6.25pm or 6.30pm to be greeted by Goussis, 40, who is accused of chasing and executing Moran while a second man guarded the door.

The court heard Ms Vlahos told police in a September 3, 2004, statement that she and her mother got home from the hospital between 8-8.15pm, and Goussis was there alone.

Prosecutor Andrew Tinney asked Ms Vlahos why her account had changed.

She replied the times were wrong in her statement because she wasn't given telephone records to refer to.

She did not know then what time Moran had been shot.

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